ODDS & ENDS
MATCH GAME
Credit: GAMES/ World of Puzzles
May, 2016
R. Wayne Schmittberger

Each item in the first list below can be paired with one of the items in the second list according to a particular criterion that is the same for all five pairs.

LIST I
1. 61st minute of a football game
2. Climate control system
3. Gibraltar or Bering
4. What a general is to a colonel
5. Strikeout

LIST II 
a. Potassium
b. Wall, for one
c. Longer portion of the King James Bible
d. Form of electricity
e. U.S. state

Answers:

One item from each list can be represented by the same abbreviation or symbol:

1. c - OT - Overtime and Old Testament
2. d - AC - Air Conditioning and Alternating Current
3. b - ST - Strait - Street
4. e - CO - Commanding Officer - Colorado
5. a - K - strikeout in baseball scoring - Potassium